To truly appreciate artisanal chocolate making, one must start at the source: the cocoa farm. Numerous farms throughout ...

In the 19th Century, Rudolf Lindt, of the famous Lindt chocolate family, accidentally invented the crucial step of "conching" the chocolate – rolling the warm cocoa mass to make it smooth and re ...

And it's all thanks to Swiss chocolate makers. Most importantly, they invented the conching machine, the most important machine in making chocolate. We visited Favarger in Geneva, Switzerland ...

Conching reduces the size of the particles in the chocolate, making it super smooth. Finally, the chocolate is tempered, a ...